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notices appended of remarkable plants enumerated in it, has an- 

 nually been printed and sent to all correspondents ; and we may 

 hope that with our abundant means, due diligence on our part 

 and continued liberality on that of our friends, this Institution 

 will not fail to be worthy of the Russian Empire, where science 

 in all its branches is so much cherished and means for its pro- 

 motion always readily granted. 



The preceding account of the Botanic Gardens at Petersburg, 

 and our enquiries into the origin and progress of our own, natu- 

 rally suggest the wish of knowing something of other similar 

 establishments, and we should be glad to receive communica- 

 tions of this kind from the gentlemen under whose care they may 

 be at present. We can hardly expect that accounts consuming 

 much time and labour should be furnished, and our purpose 

 would in fact be best served by enabling us to publish, in a short 

 form, brief sketches of the principal botanical gardens in and out 

 of Europe • a kind of synopsis of the history of botanical Horti- 

 culture. The details we should like to have furnished might 

 perhaps be — 



1. Date of first establishment. 



2. Extent of ground. 



3. Number and kind of houses. 



4. Annual expenditure, and source from whence de- 



rived. 



5. Names of eminent men connected at any time with 



the establishment. 



6. Remarkable plants first cultivated, introduced, 



named, or now particularly conspicuous. 

 and any other notice of striking importance. 



Such information we hope will be readily furnished, and we 

 would have pleasure in publishing it. It would mutually be a 

 labour of love, and in the permanency which we flatter ourselves 

 to give to it in our pages, it would have its own reward. We 

 also hope, that other publications, both here and abroad, will 

 give currency to our wish and promote its accomplishment. It 

 is satisfactory to state, that gentlemen connected with embassies 

 and consulates are everywhere willing to forward papers concern- 

 ing such matters, free of expense, which, as in days of yore, so 

 even now, fair Science can ill afford to defray. 



